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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1899)
UT IS THAT ALL? Ik tittle dreaming by the wu U. Bttlo tolling day toy day. A little pain, a little itrlfe, , A little joy and that U life. fA ahormvod. fleeting iunuir'i morn pfnea happiness fmi nrwly born, Whn one dav'a akv la hi Aad one bird sings and that la love A little wearying of the year. n trihutA -f a f twit t Two folded hands, the fainting breath, peace at last and that la detth. J tie dreaming, loving, dying, ao The acton In the drama go; A fitting picture on a wall. Love, death, the themea! But la It all? Paul Lawrence Dunbar. AN ENEMY TO ELECTRICITY If Miss Sellna Emmona had known Just a little more about the company their tracka would never have crossed her land. When there wu a rumor that the electric were coming through Brook- ton the disapproved very strongly. When the rumor waa confirmed, and the additional Information given that the cars were to run by her house, Hiss Belina was Indignant and a little bit Alarmed. She wondered If It would be aafe. But when the company wrote and wanted to know If they might buy a trip of her land along the liver, about two acres in all, on which to lay their tracks, thereby saving the building of two bridges and a half mile or more of unnecessary track, she waa decidedly and unmistakably angry. Sell her land for an electric line, for ooth! She wouldn't have the horrid things within sight or sound of her If he could help It What If It wasn't anything but sandy pasture land, grow Ing up to huckleberry and bayberry bushes. They shouldn't have It. It was nothing to her If they had to build a dozen bridges and go twenty miles out , of their way. She thought of the scathing replies ahe might make to them, repudiating their proposal. Then a happy thought truck her. She got her pen and wrote on the bottom of the company's letter: "You might have the land for $50 n acre. Yours truly, Sellna Emmons." She smiled when she had done this, How they would feel when they got that answer! Five hundred dollars an ere! Why, she wanted to sell the whole ten acres for tlOO, and that had been thought too much. For a day or two he smiled, whenever she thought of her answer, and she wished she could have ecn the fares of the company when they opened It. Then came the shock of discovering that her offer had been accepted. The company had her statement In black and white, with her name signed to It, o there was no possible escape for her. This was In the fall and work on the lectric road would not begin till spring. Miss Sellna felt thankful that the evil day was so far off. Perhaps there waa a chance yet that the road would not go through. Nevertheless the worried and fretted over It all win tr, and It waa the worry, the doctor aid, that brought on the spell of slck Bess In March. She waa not seriously 111 and by the 1st of April, when work On the road began, she waa around doing her work as usual. "I'm not going to have folks say I (ot sick on account of that company," he said. "Anyway, it won't do any food to worry. Let 'em alone, but If they expect me to patronize them they are mistaken, that Is all. wouldn't ride on one of those cars, not If Queen Victoria or the president of the United States told me to. If other folks want to risk their lives they can." The thought of the 11,000 was a great comfort. It seemed like a fortune to her ond she planned what she would do with the Interest money. She would have a new carpe. for the parlor the very first thing and have the room pa pered and painted. By the middle of April the workmen came In sight of the house, and fur a day or two Miss Sellna watched them with a hostile eye. Then In spite of herself she began to be Interested In the work and as It came nearer she ... - . ...... tf haf t(ma at the. windows. When the men wanted to ; at their dinners out under her chest- nut tree and get water from the pump In the yard she gave a willing consent, "They are not to blame for what the onanv does." she said. I she said One of the men carried In a pall of water for her one day, and got to talk ing with her. He found out that she wanted her little garden spaded up and the next day the men shortened their nooning and did the work In Jlttle while. The day after that Miss 8elina carried out to them a huge dish pan filled with hot doughnuts, which melted away like snow before the sun. When the rails were all laid by the house nd the work was no longer in Ight Miss Belina was very lonesome, till she could see the men go by at Big ht and morning, and the young man who hsd carried the water for her al ways smiled snd waved his hnd. The first of June the cam were run nlng, and Miss Belina saw them go by crowded. It was smaslng. "I didn't know there were so many reckless folks In the world." she said. She hsd to admit that there was a certain com panlonshlp In seeing all those people. Oa warm days ths motormen , and Conductors would stop nearly every trip tad got a k of water at her pump, and he t pride In the cool smm of the watr , and la having ths tmbtar eat thu- clean aad bright Altar a tlmo all tl me, seeing her always at tka window, would speak to matit on the weather. There was ens young motorman who waa her espe cial favorite, and he was the Drat one to discover her aversion to risking her life on the cars. "Any time you want to try It," he told her, "Just come along on my car, and I'll be extra careful of you." Miss Selina laughed and told him that she would go on his car when she went, but that she didn't think either one of them would live long enough to see the day. In August he told her one day: "You'd better go with me tomorrow. It's my last day on the line. I've been trans ferred." Tm very sorry, Mr. Bally," said Se Una. "8o am I," he answered. ' On his last trip in the afternoon he said: "Be ready at 7 sharpv" then laughed and swung onto his car and clattered away. Miss Sellna watched it across the pasture. Then she took a long breath, straightened up and said: "I will do It." The next morning at 7:15 she was all ready, her work done and the door locked behind her as she sat on the step watting. Bally could hardly be lieve his eyes when he saw her. "Going?" he calied."Well, that's good. Sit on the front seat here, then you cos see and get the air." He noticed that her hands shook and that she was a little pale. A mile further on he looked around at her. "Like It?" he asked. She nodded. Her eyes were very bright. On their return they had to watt at a turnout for another car, and Ually sat-down beside her. Her hair waa blown about her face, and her expres sion was animated. "She must have been pretty when she was young," he thought. "Do you usually go faster?" she asked. "Oh, Just about the same, I guess." "I was going to say you needn't go any slower on my account. It doesn t scare me a bit. I like to go fast." When he stopped at her house she sat motionless. "I guess I won t get out yet," she said. "I think I will ride a little more." The next time there was a wait she seemed abstracted. She was busy with problem in mental arithmetic, name ly: How many car rides can be got out of the Interest on $1,000? The solution seemed to please her. 'I can get along without the carpet," she said to herslf, "and the paint and paper don't look very bad, anyway." Canary Birds and Consumption. Almost every week the medical pa pers add another item to their list of deadly dangers. The latest is conveyed n a remarkable communication on the subject of Infection among song birds n the Lancet, contributed by Dr. A. Tucker Wise, of Montrcaux, Swltzer- and. He says: While engaged on an Inquiry Into the sources of baclllary Infection in cases which have recently come under my notice I have been struck by the number of patients who have lived In qontact with diseased canaries and other feathered pels. Among cage birds, pigeons and poul try, tuberculosis is a common disease) and there is a strong: probability that avian infection can be conveyed to hu man beings who keep birds within the house. The objectionable practice or allowing them to place their beaks In contact with the lips Is a risky and dangerous proceeding as regards lia bility to receive bacilli in this way If the bird Is not healthy. Feeding and nursing sick birds and blowing the dust and husks from their seed and cleaning the cage are not without danger. In my opinion the canary or any other bird kept in the kitchen Is a positive peril to the house hold, as by fluttering and whisking the dust from Its cake or mucus from its beak the food of a whole family can be contaminated. Parrots can also be attacked by tu bercle, which Is characterized frequent ly by new growths of horny skin, which sometimes attain a considerable size. They can easily be broken oft and they contain numerous tubercle bacilli in their basal granulation tissue. Tuber culosls of' the- lungs is often met with. According to a compilation by Eberleln i . . . . .1 r 1 stAnt me sum ... - - the tongue in is per cent, ano in. and articulations In 12 per cent of al the cases. From a diagnostic point of view It is Important to note that the tuberculosis of parrots Is distinguished Dy me presence vi ci.w. ...vmo ben of bacilli. "PsIttaeoclB, an Infectious disease of parrots, has already been observed to cause a serious and fatal pneumonia of a special type transmitted by these birds to man. In 1892 about 60 persons In Paris were attackd; since that time other milder epidemics have been no ticed and studied by Gilbert, Fournler and Debove. "Taking Into consideration the unnat ural and unhealthy life to which man subjects the domestic animals, especi ally birds confined In small cages. It Is not surprising that these captives should become diseased and pollute the sir with pathogenlo microscopic or ganlsms." Abraham White, the successful bid der for Boston's new loan of four mil lions, started out early In ISM with a capital of one postage stamp. With this he sent In a bid for a big lot of United States bonds, then offered to the public, bidden not being required to make a deposit or send certified check, aad his hid happened to be high snough to bring him Into the list of accepted one end juat lew enough to enable him to contrast la advance for the sale of the bends at a gooa prom. He aad wife cleared ap a has UUla i tuac b tail brewd stroke. A RELIC OF THB PAST. The Oreat Cnlnese Wall Soon to Be Torn Down. The great Chinese wall Is to be torn down. The most famous feature of the Celestial Kingdom, known to every schoolboy and schoolgirl In America, one of the wonders of the world. Is at last to make way for maiden progress The dowager empress of China has decreed It. and contracting firms In New York and Chicago have underta ken to do the stupendous work, The tearing down of the great wall along China's northern border Is like the task ot raxing ail the buildings of New York, Boston and Chicago. The Chinese wall is 1,500 miles long. It would extend from New York to he cit or St. Paul, Minn. In places It is thirty feet high, twenty-five feet thick at the base and fifteen feet wide on top It is the greatest example of useless labor and oriental stupidity and exclu slveness ever exhibited. By this means the Chinese In the year 214 B. C 2.100 years ago thought to fence In their kingdom and forever keep out invading strangers and foreign customs. Now the shrewd empress has decided to turn the great wall to some use. Its stones and bricks and mortar will be used to build levees along the rivers which yearly devastate China's most fertile valleys and bring starvation and death to myriads of her people. Where the great wall runs near cities its material will be used in the con struction of long needed public build ings, equeducts and other public lm provements. It is estimated that there is enough material In the great wall to build one hundred cities the size of Peking, Chi na's capital, besides constructing all the levees and aqueducts needed In northern China. The Chinese officials realize that It would probably take another 2,000 years to accomplish these things by Oriental methods. So they are letting contracts to American firms on condition that this great work shall be done in five years. Already steam drills are at work at the huge wall, and dynamite charges are breaking up the masonry that has withstood twenty centuries of progress. The great wall was built by the cm peror Tsln Chl-hwangtl, two centuries before the Christian era, in order to repel the Tartar hordes of horsemen from the north, and to keep out all for elgn influence from his empire. This Idea of shutting China up within a wall was not altogether original with this emperor. Other rulers had built walls along certain exposed frontiers to keep out invaders. Tradition fixes the data of these earlier walls at 3.322 B. C. Tslo Chl-hwangti determined to Join all the fortifications together into one mighty barrier. It took ten years to do this, and the labor of two million men during that time. This same mighty emperor who built the great wall is also notable for another deed. He burned all the books and written records of China, in order that the written history of his empire should date from his re'gn. The part of the great wall which is most interesting is Nankow Pass and the Patallng Gate. The wall here forms a dividing line between the rocky hlUs of China and the barren plains of Mon golia. Along the mountain summits and zigzagging up and down their sides runs this endless chain of masonry un til lost to view on the farthest range. In this way It extends in an Irregular line across valleys and mountains from the Pechlll gulf, an arm of the Yellow sea on the east, to the Qobl desert on the west. In some of the most distant parts the wall degenerates Into a simple stone and earth embankment. Hut for the most part Its sides are faced with solid stone and brick masonry. The middle portion Is filled In with earth and bro ken stones. On top of this a pavement of large square bricks is laid. These bricks are put together in the form of steps wherever the wall makes a steep ascent of a mountain. At intervals are large square parapets, giving It a most formidable appearance as a fortifica tion. The fronts and changing seasons of two thousand ears have made but little Impression on this mighty but useless work. From time to time Chinese rul ers of the Christian era have repaired and built additions to the great wall. In the seventh century l.soo.OOO men were employed In strengthening the part of the wall which crosses the Nan kow pass JuBt northwest of Peking. At the same time 200,000 men renewed an other portion of it. Again, five hun dred years ago. In the dynasty of the Ming emperors, vast armies were em ployed In building additions to the wall and adding new battlements and par a pets. In explanation of the present Chinese government's change of policy Indicated by the tearing down of this ancient landmark, Chl-Yuen-tl, a Chinese man darin from Peking, who was In New York last week, made this statement: "The mighty undertaking that is be fore our government In this destruction of the eighth wonder of the world is a proof that China is ubout to take a gi ant stride toward a better and stronger civilization. The mighty wall created by the Emieror Tsin two thousand years ago is no longer a safeguard against the asuaults of an army armed with the weapons of today. "For many years the Chinese govern ment has studied and pondered the util ity of the great wall, and It is now con ceded that It Is no longer needed. The immense amount of material in Its com position will suffice to build twenty cities like New York. In the northern portion nr our vast empire there are mighty rivers th" Mqdows, so the window was never ac traverse regions thickly settled wlthn . . ..' towns and villages. In the rainy sea sons these rivers frequently overflow their banks and carry death and devas. tatlon to thousands of families. Shortly after one of these disasters about a year sgo, the empress sent LI Hung Chang to visit the scene of the great flood snd advise what ought to be done. "On his return to the capital he told her Imperial majesty of the mighty riv er In the heart of America and how It waa prevented from sweeping away the cities that Ho along Its shores. An Imperial decree went forth to pull down the wall and dyke the rebellious river. China will soen control the waters of the might Yang-tse-Klang In a leash formed from the masonry of the great wall. "Although no longer keeping out the savage tribesmen from the north. It will continue to stand between the Chinese people and the fierce enmity of too Water Dragon." THE POET. Ills home Is In the heights; to him Men wage a battle weird and dim. Life Is a mission stern as fate, And Song a dread apostolate. The toils of prophecy are his, To hail the coming centuries To ease the steps and lift the load Of souls that falter on the road. The perilous music that he hears Falls from the vortice of the spheres He presses on before the race. And sings out of a silent place. Like faint notes of a forest bird On heights afar that voice is heard; And the dim path he breaks today Will some time be the trodden way. But when the race comes toiling on That voice of wonder will be gone Be heard on higher peaks afar, Moved upward with the morning star. O men of earth, that wandering voice Still goes the upward way, rejoice! Edwin Markham. ROMANCE OF A WINDOW. The other evnlng one of the members o the very exclusive KInloch club of this city, relates the St. Louis Globe Democrat, pointed up to the beautiful colored glass window immediately over the fireplace and asked the group if they knew the story of the window It was the evening on which the re ception was given to Captain Coghlan of the Raleigh, and there were many Invited guests, in addition to the mem bers of the club. They all gathered about the fireplace and gazed up at he stained glass. Those Who had glanced carelessly at the window be fore looked at It carefully, and com mented on it as a genuine work of art It Is not an ordinary window, with Its part Joined by frames of lead, but is of the finest kind of colored cathe dral glass, so perfectly Joined that the seams are not visible. It is paneled In shape, and In the colored glass appears the face and form of a beautiful woman She is In the costume of a dancer and her skirts fall but little below the knees. The figure is perfect In Its proportions, and the face Is one of sur prising beauty. A close Inspection tells of the worth of the window, and con vlnces one that the production Is a real work of art, of rare value, and not the chance Idea of a window designer. The story of the window, which is known to but few outside the circle of the club Itself, was told as follows by the clubman: "You see. when It came to the deco. ration of the clubhouse, on its complex tlon, we wanted something out of the ordinary and we appointed a commit tee to go to Chicago and select a num ber of articles which we thought could be selected to good advantage there, We got the notion of securing some good colored glass in the way of fancy windows and the like, and the three of us dropped into a State street store for the purpose of picking out something of the kind. We looked at a lot of pictures and designs, and heard the dealer expatiate on the merits of dif ferent kinds of colored glass until we had a hopeless and confused idea of the whole transaction and felt that the buying of colored glass windows was something that ought never to be at tempted by anyone but an expert. When we had all finally reached the point where we were about to admit our help lessness, one of our number spoke ot and, with as much dignity as he could muster declared that the photograph and plan business was all right, so far as it went, but what we wanted was to see something of the real thing in the way of work done by the firm. 'The dealer looked surprised, hesl tated and finally said he had something that might please us in a decorative colored glass panel window. He went to the back of the shop and carefully lifted from Its box a beautifully col ored window panel. It was in the richest of colors and depicted a danc ing girl in short skirts. The dealer said that the glass had been prepared abroad and was left on his hands under most peculiar circumstances'. A rich Chlcagoan had, immediately after mar rying, decided that as a part of the decoration of his new home he would have a window In which the face and form of his wife would appear. He got together the necessary photographs In appropriate costumes and brought them to the glass window concern, where estimates were made as to the probable cost. He wanted naught but the best and was not content to have the picture painted or burned Into the glass. He wanted the work done In the actual colored glass. "The dealer was obliged to send the photographs and an extended explana tion of what was Wanted abroad and there the window was made. It took ten months for Its completion and when It was finished and returned the dealei notified his rich patron. But the win dow never found a place In the rich man's house. They had been married long enough to become estranged and divorced. The rich man had completed the house he had built for his bride nnd was living alone in it. There were enough sad memories about the house without having the face of the woman from whom he had separated looking down on him from one of the great pied. Same one thoughtfully took away the Rev. H. Abraham's new silk hat at the Cardiff Baptist college meeting oh Tiiurscay and, of course, left a very poor one behind, says the London Tele gram. With view of finding the cul prit, the reverend gentleman composed nd hsd the following lines read out by Dr. Edwards at the luncheon: I've sometimes lost my head. But there's not much In that; A sadder thing has happened hero, For I have lost my hat; I'd like to find the thievish sinner. Perchance he's sitting hero at dinner, Before the reverend gentleman left the table the hat waa returned a Om tribute to poor poetry, . - . THB SCARECROW APPENDICITIS It Is remarkable how our forefathers managed to live "long and happy" in their ignorance of the vermiform ap pendix. Perhaps like the X-ray, thia appendix is the creation of modern sci ence, or the need of modern surgery. Certain it Is that this vermiform ap pendix or the knife of the new sur geon has largely curtailed the pleas ures, if not the duration of life. We are In mortal dread of berries, grapes, figs and small seeded vegetables, lest that useless appendix or the ready knife of the surgeon will "do us up." Which Is which? I confess I am In consider able dougt. But one of the profession. Dr. Hutton, appears to attach much more blame to the knife than to the appendix. He may be right. He ought to know; I don't. I do know that the knife is feafully fatal. This eminent and experienced Dr. Hutton gives some very cheerful encouragement to those chronic sufferers with supposed appen dicitis in the Medical Record, from which I quote: "This paper is a protest against the current surgical theory and practice that all cases of appendicitis must be spilt open. The protest is based on twenty-seven years' experience as phy sician and surgeon. . . . My experi ence is that appendicitis and all other ellyaches for which men now operate, are promptly amenable to proper med ical treatment. I can recall one hun dred cases treated with symptoms of this malady, . . . but I have never yet met a case of It In which I felt it was my duty to cut, or which terminat ed fatally. ... I shall cite other unimpeachable practitioners who share my vlews.that medical treatment avails in this malady, one showing forty-nine out ot fifty-one cases successfully treat edbeing more than 96 per cent. My treatment for appendicitis is free calo mel and soda purgation, supplemented by hot applications, to be followed by a saline if action is too slow." Perhaps It would be well to forget the vermiform appendix and let science and surgery fight It out In their own sweet way. Atlanta Constitution. Dazzling Richness Prevails, The Russian court, military and min isterial dress Is costly and rich In the extreme, and this richness is carried out even to the liveries of the servants, their scarlet coats being literally ablaze with gold. It is a fact that no court In the world presents such a picturesque and magnificent appearance as does that of Russia. At any function, there fore, the show Is brilliant, but more es pecially, perhaps, at a ball, when the rich evening toilets of the ladies, en hanced by Jewels of priceless worth, add much to the already brilliant effect. The Russian dances are of a very stately description and both the em peror and empress take part in them very thoroughly. The aspect of the armorial hall where the supper Is often laid Is grand be yond all description. This meal Is not partaken of standing, as at the major Ity of courts, but the guests sit down at the long row of tables. A procession is formed, which Is headed by his lm perial majesty and the most dlstln gulshed lady present, and the room is then entered In the order of prece dence. Of course, an Immense quantity of plate is displayed. This, and the china that is also used are noted all through Europe for their richness and beauty. There Is one service alone cap, able of dining 500 persons that is com, posed entirely of the purest silver over laid with gold. Added to all this the use of a variety of the choicest fruits and the rarest flowers, among which orchids figure largely, makes the scene one of the most gorgeous magnificence. During the evening a state progress through the suite of rooms Is made by the Imperial personages and the chief! officers of the household, the guests forming up into a long avenue on either side. One special feature is that two or three of the largest halls in the paf- ace are on the occasion of the ball fitted up as a huge conservatory, palms, ex otics, ferns, banks of flowers and even fruit trees being transplanted thither with the most marvelous effect. Electric light is carried throughout and glows down from myriads of globes and a variety of colors. In this verita ble fairyland hundreds of seats are placed for the convenience of the gyests Wween the dances. It would be utter 't Impossible to mention the rare works of art to be seen In this palace, com prising paintings, statuary, collections of Jewels, antiquities and curios of ev ery description. Everything Is of ori ental magnificence and to see it all the eye must weary of the continuous aaz zle. English Magazine. Brutes Not Deceived. "It's a singular fact," said a man In the show business, "that 'luslons as we call 'em. don't fool animals. I've seen that proven over and over again. A few years ago I had what is known as the 'Mystlo Maze' at the Nashville exposition. It was simply a small room filled with morrors, so arranged that you seemed to be In a narrow cor ridor full of turns. It was very puz zling, and I used to get lost In the place myself, but It never bothered my dog a moment He would run through It from end to end at full speed and never bump against a mirror. "I saw something on the same line In 'Frisco not long ago. A friend of mine had an illusion called 'The Haunt ed Swing.' You get In what seems to be an ordinary swing, hung in the cen ter of a good-sized room, and the thing begins to move. It goes back and forth and finally clear over ths top that Is to say, It seems to. What really turns round Is the room Itself the swing stands perfectly still. It Is a good 'Illusion, and when the room Is revolved rapidly there never was a man who could keep hi head In the swing. It seems as If he must certainly pitch out, and If the motion Is kept up he gets deathly sick. But a pet cat be longing to my friend used to lie on the edge of the seat and never turn a hair, ,no matter how fast the thing waa worked. "The elder Hermann told me that an imal were never deceived by false ta ble lags, built up with looking glasses, aad used la stage tricks. They always passed around on the other aide. 1 guess they must see better, somehow TORY OP ROBERT BONNER. A story told of the lata Robert Boa ner la sometimes laid to the nimble wtl of the Inimitable William R. Travers Mr. Bonner was riding in a street cai one day with his son, then a little boy Tl.e car was crowded and Mr. Bonnet had taken the little boy on bis knee Presently a handsome and stylist young woman entered and Mr. Bonnet nudged his son from his knee. "My boy," he said, gravely, "get ui and give the lady your seat." Even the young woman had to jols In the titter that followed. The only time in his life that Mr. Bonner ever made a bet was when b was a typesetter on the old Hertford Courant. l "Jour" of the name of Han came down the line with the advanct reputation of being the swiftest com positor on earth. "Maybe," said the Courant men, "bul you haven't tried Bonner yet." "Huh!" said the "Jour," "I'll try him for $10 a side." "I never bet," said Mr. Bonner. "You better not," laughed the chal lenger. Mr. Bonner changed bis mind. He put up $10, got down to work, and besides' consuming two pieces of custard' pie, set 25,100 ems of solid minion type in twenty hours and twenty-eight min utes. The feat has never been equaled. Md. Bonner's greatest pride was that he never borrowed or owed. The only thing he ever borrowed was a maxim from Emerson "Ob, discontented man! Whatever you want, pay the price and take It!" He did. Whenever he wanted anything he paid for It. The price sometimes came high. But Mr. Bonner got It all the same. Mr. Bonner's place at Tarrytown was one of the finest trotting farms in the country. But, strange to relate, he never spent a night there from the time he bought it till the day he died. Why, no one ever knew. It was a no tion of his just that and nothing else. Once Mr. Bonner wanted a place in Westchester. He found one that waa satisfactory and asked whether there was malaria In the neighborhood. The agent said no; there was no malaria in Westchester, but over across the line there was plenty. Every householder in the county told him the same thing. So Mr. Bonner bought the place and promptly got malaria. A few days aft erward an advertisement appeared in the New York newspapers. Mr. Bon ner offered his place for sale. In the advertisement he enlarged upon the fact that it was the only place In the entire county where malaria could be caught, but, notwithstanding this great and uncommon advantage, he would sell it at a reasonable price. In sup port of his statement Mr. Bonner called attention to the assertion of every real estate dealer in the neighborhood that there was no malaria In the county. He sold the place. "It's too bad." said a friend to him one day, "that Charles Dickens won't write for American publications." "He won't, eh?" cried Mr. Bonner. "Just wait till I try." He rushed down to his office, wrote to Dickens asking for a story and with the letter sent a draft for $5,000. Dickens was carried off his feet. He accepted and at the same time asked whether this was the way American publishers did business. "It's the way this one does," answer ed Mr. Bonner. A while afterward Mr. Bonner captured Tennyson by the same plan. Mr. Bonner, with all the tens of thou sands of stories he published, never read fiction. The only stories he ever finished were Dlcken's "Hunted Down" and Sylvanug Cobb, jr.'s "The Gun- maker of Moscow." It was his custom to read merely the opening chapter. and if he found it satisfactory to have the story read through by his readers. Once, when Mr. Bonner's capital waa Just $8,000, he determined to make cer tain advertising. When the estimate was brought to him it was $10,000. . "Too much," said he to the adver tising agent. "Cut it down to $8,000. That's all the money I have." "Can't do It." said the agent, "but I'll trust you for the $2,000." I know that," said Mr. Bonner, "but I won't let you." The agent cut the difference. "Am I a teetotaller? No," said Mr. Bonner In answer to the question. "No," ' am not a teetotaller. I had a glass of sherry when I came to New York In 1644." It is not on record tha ho ever took another. A Royal Love Story. From a London ccble letter; Th quiet marriage of M. le Comte de Jame- tel to the Duchess Marie Mecklenberg Strelltz Is one of the most romantic royal unions of the century. Jametel the handsome and distinguished looking son of an apothecary' at 6Fn- talnebleu, who made a considerable for tune. Young Jametel went into . the arm, goty In with the smartest French noblesse, became acknowledged as the Due de Sagan's only-serious rival foi the position of the best dressed man la Paris, was made a count ot the Holy Roman empire by the pope for his re ligious benefactions, and at the age ol 31 nas marnea a gooaiooking daugh ter of one of the most exclusive of Ger man princely families, has become hereditary duk and pniiiln if h. k.i. ser, grandnephew of Queen Victoria, ana Kinsman or every royal ramiiy la Europe. But be has got Into serious trouble wjth his patron, the pope, ovei the marriage. The duchess la a Protes tant, and the pope gave his dispensa tion on the usual condition that there hould be no ceremony except that la a catholic cnurcn, nut after the Cath olic ceremony the bridal party drove U Protestant church, where the mar riage waa solemnised according to the Protestant rite, though Jametel protooti he thought that nothing mora was be ing aene tnaa tao recaiai or a prays rite marriage took place after a month's engagement, the rouag fUOY ms having fallen violently la keka wi-h lametol last May la Farm, kexr good moraia